China may be ambitious and proud, but it is still in the throes of modernisation; it knows that its continued rise depends for now on the present order.
The Pentagon's only hope of ultimate destruction of the caliphate depends for now on arming, supporting and training Syrians and Iraqis to do the job themselves.
First, the conditions on which children depend for emotional growth can now be accurately defined.
The potential for abuse of power through digital networks — upon which we as citizens now depend for nearly everything, including our politics — is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
So, what are you going to depend on now for your perception of college athletes as students...an uninformed bias that says all jocks are dumb or the undeniable data that shows on average student-athletes are doing as well or better than other students?
According to Raffi Hovannisian, Armenia's former foreign minister, the country now depends for some one-third of its economy on money sent by Armenians abroad.
With the once-booming Ireland mired in one of the deepest downturns of any industrial country since the 1930s, supporters say it would be a mistake to upset the neighbors on whom Ireland now depends for financial help.
Funding institutions have also cut support for the International Maize and Wheat Center — located in Mexico and known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT — where Borlaug helped to develop the high-yield, low-pesticide dwarf wheat upon which a substantial portion of the world's population now depends for sustenance.
Mr Anwar has been courting support in the Malaysian part of Borneo, hoping that some of the gaggle of pro-government parties there on which the ruling coalition now depends for its majority might defect en masse.Mr Anwar has been prime minister in waiting before.
